Thanks to its unique location in Kachinsky steppe in the Minusinsk hollow the territory around the lake possesses an original climate that influences well on the health and helps treating many illnesses.

Medical properties of the lake Tus are known already more than hundred years. The most powerful curative effect has the lake mineral water, the water extracted from an artesian spring and an oozy mud of the lake.As the experts say the water of the lake Tus and the water extracted from an artesian spring are similar to the water of the Dead Sea. That’s why the lake Tus received the informal name «the Dead Sea of Siberia».It is very nice to take salty baths having settled down in the centre of the lake and admiring the landscape. Salty water has got so much dense that it is possible to lie on a surface without any efforts!